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A Little of This, A Little of That…

First, a word about blogging, blogs and their readers. While I love reading the blogs I subscribe to (they’re all so good in their own ways), I hate the arrogance that some folks on WP have with regards to allowing people to ‘like’ a post and subscribe to a blog. Some WP bloggers have disabled both options for reasons that I don’t quite understand, but I’m slowly beginning to see that it’s ego run amok. The author is forcing you to comment on a post you like instead of pressing the ‘like’ button–which to me–is classic passive-aggressive behavior. This is becoming more popular for some reason, and I’ve noticed that at least half of the blogs I subscribe to are starting to do this. It’s such a pain in the ass that I’m going to stop reading the blogs that I can’t participate with in the way I desire.

Why wouldn’t the author of a blog want readers to like a post they’ve worked tirelessly on? Why have the only option for subscribing to a blog via email? See, that shit drives me nuts. I don’t like clogging up my email with alerts from WP–even though I only do that for a select few. I like having all of my subscriptions in one place–in my WP Reader. Maybe this is done by some WordPressers because their worlds don’t exist much outside of WordPress and this is their way of controlling things. I don’t know. All I know is it’s so gauche, and I’m growing weary of it.

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It’s been some time since I’ve done a news round-up. Why? Well, the news has been a major doggie-downer as of late so the thought of writing about it was causing me to feel like I was going through heroin withdrawal. I’m not a huge fan of vomiting, writhing on the floor and soiling my knickers uncontrollably. If that’s your thing, then hey, knock yerself out.

But, I’m holding off on having those things happen to me until I’m at least 90 years old.

Francis is the emotionally retarded chap who made underage titty flashing the new thing to aspire to for so many girls who consider “cracker” to be a term of endearment and who frequent spring break getaways like South Padre Island, Ft. Liquordale, and the like. Oh, and he’s been in trouble with the law–he doesn’t like to pay taxes, can’t comprehend the meaning of ‘consent’ and doesn’t quite seem to glean what ‘underage’ means exactly–just to name a few. Oh for fun, get on the google machine and type in ‘Steve Wynn vs. Joe Francis’ and you’ll read some of the best unintentional comic material ever.

Bravo to Spain for taking a stand on dog poop scofflaws. You know, in Chicago, I think we should have the option of smearing the dog feces on the owners OR smearing them on a Cubs/Sox/Hawks/Bears/Bulls jersey in front of the owner. It all depends on which team the owner supports, and the messier the poop, the better. That’ll never happen since our sleazoid of a mayor is too busy engaging in a circle jerk with no-bid city contractors and parking meters companies.

This made me smile. China Eastern Airlines is getting all of their flight attendants trained in the ancient Chinese secret art of Kung Fu, as a way to protect themselves against hijackers. Tis a noble effort and I had no idea CEA was a target for hijackers. I do hope they’ll channel the surprisingly un-Chinese looking Kwai Chang Caine whilst unloading a high-kick to a hijacker’s noggin.

19 thoughts on “A Little of This, A Little of That…”

I’m a guilty party with the likes; it was an experiment…though I didn’t have a hypothesis…I still got likes because it turns out you can like from your reader, so followers could still like, as could people who randomly read from the topic walls who genuinely liked the post; and I got to smirk at the people who liked a post for the sole reason of getting people to click on their like and go to their blog, because no-one who they actually wanted to see the like could see it, but they didn’t know this because they didn’t bother to actually read the post before liking and discover that the like button had been disabled…sometimes a thing that makes me smirk overrides all other considerations.

OK — I’ve been on WordPress for 5 years. I read your notes about liking and following 4 times now and still have no idea what you’re talking about. I don’t know what those features are, let alone how to go about disabling them. I don’t see them on my blog, or in the control panel.

Friends email me now and then to complain that they can’t put a comment on without providing some kind of sign-in. There’s nothing I know about that compels this, and when I go to my own blog to see what they see, I don’t see a damn thing. Other than bad gas, how am I supposed to I fix something that’s invisible?

So I appreciate your rant and concern, just clueless about a solution. Like your government. Except for the appreciation part.

Thanks for the like button. I use it often here and on other blogs that offer it. It usually means I like it, but sometimes it just means “Nice effort dude.” Even if I don’t like the content, sometimes I like to push the like button to show them I liked what they put into it. If I leave a comment, it’s because I had more to say. I don’t like typing just to read my own words. I have to feel there’s something to say/read. I appreciate having those different options available to me.

And the toys . . . Oh my goodness. It makes me wonder how many of those things are in the safe deposit boxes at the bank!

Thanks for clearing up for me why I can’t “like” some posts I like so much. Tho’ I admit, some posts I want to do that to, “like” isn’t quite the word….I mean, you want to draw attention to something freaking appalling, but you don’t REALLY like it. I’m holding onto my own earworm, thanks….my Brain Radio played “Sounds of Silence” for me this morning!

I am going to put up a post about it tomorrow, got to take some crude pictures and such….still trying to scribble out the last of the commercial ink stuck in the wee groovie things of the pen so it will start pumping the home made ink based on a damned near medieval recipe.